Louis Sarno (July 3, 1954 – April 1, 2017) was an American adventurer, recorder of folk music and author.

2017年4月10日 · Louis Sarno, an American suburban romantic who abandoned his doctoral studies to devote nearly half his life to recording and preserving the vanishing music of pygmies in a remote Central African...

2019年10月31日 · Louis Sarno, an American original who lived for 30 years among Bayaka Pygmies in the Central African rainforest and recorded their polyphonic music more completely than any audio adventurer or ethnomusicologist could dream of, died where he was born, in New Jersey, on April 1, 2017.

Louis Sarno's account of his strange journey away from modern civilisation is disarmingly frank and completely lacking in self-importance. Longing to be accepted by these people, but ashamed at his lack of basic skills, he appears to be the ultimate innocent in paradise.

2017年4月15日 · After hearing the strange and mesmerizing music of pygmies in the Central African Republic's rain forest, Louis Sarno's life was transformed. He lived for decades with them. Sarno died this...

2021年2月11日 · The Louis Sarno collection of Bayaka music is the largest collection of its kind anywhere in the world. The result of permanent immersion within a community for almost thirty years, the collection is unprecedented in its scope, scale and ambition.

2015年4月18日 · Sarno has been described by some as the "white pygmy of Yandoumbé" or "Ba'aka Louis"; others have reached for the easy pejorative "Screwy Louis". But to some musicologists, Sarno is...

Louis Sarno is an American musicologist and author Career In the mid-1980s he lived among a Bayaka Pygmy clan in the Central African Republic, and recorded their music His experiences were published as Song From The Forest, which was included among the "99 books that capture the spirit of Africa" by Geoff Wisner.

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Louis Sarno is an ethnomusicologist from Newark, New Jerey, USA. Since the 1985 he has been living amongst the Bakaya ( Aka (11) ) Pygmies from the Central African Republic and recording their music and culture.

2017年4月14日 · Louis Sarno — who loved the music of Central African Republic's Bayaka Pygmies so much he lived with them for 30 years — died last week at the age of 62. Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch says his old ...

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Writer Louis Sarno — who loved the music of Central African Republic's Bayaka Pygmies so much that he joined their tribe and lived with them for 30 years — died last week in New Jersey. He was 62.

Louis Sarno was an American musicologist and author who lived for a period of time among a Bayaka Pygmy clan in Central African Republic, and recorded their music. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey he went to Africa in 1985 to record the music of a pygmy tribe.

2015年4月20日 · Louis Sarno was born in Newark and has lived for thirty years on the edge of a forest in the Central African Republic, among the Bayaka—one of the peoples sometimes described as pygmies.

2016年7月20日 · Sarno’s house in the rainforest. Image: Louis Sarno. Since 2012, numerous health scares have forced Sarno to leave the Bayaka temporarily and return to the US for check-ups and treatment.

2024年1月13日 · Louis Sarno (born 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American musicologist and author. In the mid1980s he lived among a Bayaka Pygmy clan in the Central African Republic, and recorded their music. His experiences were published as Song From The Forest, which was included among the 99 books that cap

2017年5月17日 · The Pitt Rivers Museum curates the world's largest archive of BaAka music from the Central African Republic and Northern Congo. Collected by pioneering field recordist Louis Sarno, the collection documents in more than 1500 hours of recordings the entire range of music making of a single community of BaAka people across more than a generation.

2017年4月11日 · Louis Sarno, an American suburban romantic who abandoned his doctoral studies to devote nearly half his life to recording and preserving the vanishing music of pygmies in a remote Central African rain forest, died on April 1 in Cliffside Park, N.J.

2014年10月20日 · American ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno´s journeys into the Congo (and back) is the subject of this extraordinary documentary by German filmmaker, journalist and book writer Michael Obert. It is also the story of discovering one the rarest and most remote musical traditions on earth - that of the Central African Republic´s Bayaka pigmies.